17 October 2012

Gone Quilting.

I have a new love, quilting. It's still early days, and up until I get my sewing machine I'm doing it by hand. But I am having the best time. I'm actually really loving stitching by hand, it makes me feel a bit like a grandma, but I'm love sitting, watching TV and stitching my little squares together.

The design I'm working on is a very simple diagonal square pattern. I have been making this one up as I go as far as technique goes, I've struggled to find anything online that gives you the very bare essentials on how to start a quilt. I'll be adding the wadding and backing at the end, is that the right way to go about it? I have gotten myself a book now, which has some completely amazing designs and tips in it, its from the 60s!! You can find it on Amazon if you're interested.

I am very happy with how this one is going (it looks messy in the photos because I have overlap to stitch it all together smoothly, its neat I swear) and can't wait to finish gift it to someone. Gifting it may prove a problem, as it's a baby quilt, and no one I know has kids. I can then move onto a bigger and fancier design. In the mean time you'll find me lusting over some fantasticquilts, and spying on beautifulfabrics.

I would really love if you could share with my any quilting reference sites, videos, photos anything! If you quilt yourself I'd love to see something you've made too.

It looks great! I've never quilted before but make a lot of clothing, it seems to me like it might be a heck of as lot more simple for you to lay out your diagonal pattern, but sew it into straight columns...if that makes sense, so first sew all of the ones in your first column together underneath each other, then do the same to the next column and then attach the two, and so on. Like I said though I've never quilted so that might be the wrong way to do it :/ Either way, it looks lovely!

Louise! You're right!! I've just started sewing the colums together after finally getting around to reading a 'How To' book on quilting. I'd have never have thought to do it that way, much easier! Thank you